Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien on coaching in Denmark and learning from Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti.
During a distinguished 20-year playing career that included spells with Chelsea, Real Madrid and AC Milan, Michael Essien played under some of the best managers in the game.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the Right to Dream academy was founded in Ghana in 1999 by Tom Vernon, a former Manchester United scout. "I’ve known the founder, Tom Vernon, for a very long time, since I was 17 or 18," Essien explains. "I always kept in contact with him and he followed my football career. When I stopped playing, he just messaged me and said, 'What are you doing?'
Djimi Traore, a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005, coached at the academy’s base in Ghana before taking charge of AS Monaco’s youth team this year. Developing coaches comes a close second in the hierarchy of priorities within the academy’s multi-club set-up. "We are measuring the development of our style of play. That will give us better results. We are also measuring our coaches and how we educate our coaches."
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